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And this loss will be marked by an increased demand for the spectacular. The surest proof to-day that the spiritual life of the Church is waning in certain sections, is not so much that her membership-roll is not on the increase, but that professing Christian people are running wild after cards and dancing and the theater.
"There are many games of patience," he continued. "They are all founded on averages and thousands of combinations, so intricate that the law of recurrence can be determined only by months of figuring. However, one can learn a patience without bothering with the law of recurrence. I shall now teach you a game called Canfield." Time after time the cards were laid out, played, and reshuffled.
My little gray and thirty dollars in money. What's the matter with it?" The other did not appear greatly pleased, nevertheless. Thoughtfully he riffled the cards a long moment. Then he looked up into Johnson's black eyes steadily. "Poker?" he asked, quietly. "Draw poker," replied the leader, giving his black mustache a satisfied twist. He jerked his head in the direction of the chips.
He ordered a hundred visiting cards, inscribing upon them, "Alderman Wood, feu Lord Maire de Londres," which he had largely distributed amongst people of rank having translated the word "late" into "feu," which I need hardly state means "dead." A few years after the restoration of the Bourbons, the opera was the grand resort of all the fashionable world.
Lablache laid his own cards on the table, spreading them out face upwards for the rancher to see. He held three "twos." "One to you," said John Allandale; and he went and chalked the score upon the wall. There was something very business-like about these two men when they played cards. And possibly it was only natural.
This unhappy young man himself went between his father's legs in the cart when he made his fatal exit at Tyburn. It has, indeed, remained a doubt whether Dalton the father were a downright thief or not; his own friends say that he was only a cheat, and one of the most dexterous sharpers at cards in England.
I then dispatched the following message, wishing to get everything quite clear: When you say "Come" do you mean "Come to Brinkley Court"? And when you say "At once" do you mean "At once"? Fogged. At a loss. All the best. Bertie. I sent this one off on my way to the Drones, where I spent a restful afternoon throwing cards into a top-hat with some of the better element.
This was a satisfactory termination to a dispute concerning cards, and there was a total absence of any false sentiment upon the part of the commonsense authority. We were most hospitably entertained by Major and Mrs. Powell, to whose kind care we were committed by Colonel Gentry, who, being a bachelor, had no accommodation for ladies.
I offered to lift him, but he declined rather hastily and said my leg would be all right if I didn't mind putting it out a bit sloping: and he then ran up it on all fours he was quite a perceptible weight and got on to the table from my knee without any difficulty. Once there, there was a great deal to interest him books, papers, ink, pens, pipes, matches and cards.
If I played for safety, something even though it might be as unexpected as an earthquake came to wreck my plans. It was like playing cards with the Devil himself. One by one I lost the tricks. When I was penniless, I had nothing left to think of but the only piece of advice your friend Henry Rochester gave me when he sent me out into the world. The sting of his voice was like a lash.
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